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Real Recycling Campaign

Sierra Lower Mainland and Sierra Club BC are advocating for strong recycling regulations at the provincial level. We strongly support take-back container deposits, as well as expanding the deposit program to all beverage containers, including milk and milk substitutes. This system rewards recycling, exposes the hard-to-recycle materials and puts pressure on producers to improve their products. We are strongly in favour of keeping an absolute prohibition against incinerating and landfilling containers.

The daily choices we make about living, food, clothes, appliances, cleaning products, transportation, and leisure have an impact on our footprint on the environment.

The Real Recycling campaign focuses on waste management issues in the Lower Mainland and takes action to reduce waste by informing the public and working together with governments and businesses.

We are working with Zero Waste Vancouver to get milk cartons upgraded to "container" status so people would have an incentive to take their clean milk cartons back to the store for a refund, as is already the case for cans and bottles. Sign the petition here.

Sierra Lower Mainland and Sierra Club BC are advocating for strong recycling regulations at the provincial level. We strongly support take-back container deposits, as well as expanding the deposit program to all beverage containers, including milk and milk substitutes. This system rewards recycling, exposes the hard-to-recycle materials and puts pressure on producers to improve their products. We are strongly in favour of keeping an absolute prohibition against incinerating and landfilling containers.]

We paddled, we feasted, we danced! Check out the stories and photos from Sierra staff and supporters who car-pooled to Fort St John to rally and paddle Peace with farmers, ranchers and First Nations who call the Peace Valley home.

Farmland in B.C. is under assault from Delta to Fort St John, and British Columbians are standing up for their food lands. Right now, Metro Vancouver is the one remaining hurdle to the destruction of productive farmland in Tsawwassen. The Southlands proposal would plonk a full-blown shopping mall and more than 900 condos right next to Boundary Bay Park, miles away from urban centres and community services. This flies in the face of every commitment Metro Vancouver made in its Regional Growth Strategy.